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Letters 4-8-04
Letters policy We welcome letters, but please include your full name, address and a daytime telephone number. We edit all letters for libel, length and clarity. Send letters to: Letters, Illinois Times. P.O. Box 5256. Springfield, Illinois 62705. Fax: (217) 753-3958. E-mail: editor@illinoistimes.com A NEED FOR VIGILENCE After reading Dusty Rhodes’ article “The Incident” [March […]
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Words of tribute
From the earliest of times, people have thought, worried or even obsessed about the way they will be remembered. Some have attempted to build monuments or ornate gravestones; others have been satisfied with more modest means of leaving their marks on this earth. A visitor to the University of Illinois campus at Urbana-Champaign might be […]
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Letters 4-1-04
Letters policy We welcome letters, but please include your full name, address and a daytime telephone number. We edit all letters for libel, length and clarity. Send letters to: Letters, Illinois Times. P.O. Box 5256. Springfield, Illinois 62705. Fax: (217) 753-3958. E-mail: editor@illinoistimes.com MAKE THEM ACCOUNTABLE Thank you, Dusty Rhodes, for the cover article, “The […]
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Casino flap
Last fall, Gov. Rod Blagojevich took a brief but nasty beating in the Chicago media. Thick smoke from a superhot fire killed nine people in a Loop office high-rise. One of the building’s managers, Elzie Higginbottom, was a Blagojevich campaign contributor. When the city and county’s investigators dragged their feet, the Chicago media demanded that […]
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Letters 3-25-04
Letters policy We welcome letters, but please include your full name, address and a daytime telephone number. We edit all letters for libel, length and clarity. Send letters to: Letters, Illinois Times. P.O. Box 5256. Springfield, Illinois 62705. Fax: (217) 753-3958. E-mail: editor@illinoistimes.com JUSTICE NEEDS HER BLINDFOLD The system of justice here in Springfield can […]
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Letters 3-18-04
Letters policy We welcome letters, but please include your full name, address and a daytime telephone number. We edit all letters for libel, length and clarity. Send letters to: Letters, Illinois Times. P.O. Box 5256. Springfield, Illinois 62705. Fax: (217) 753-3958. E-mail: editor@illinoistimes.com MAYOR DEWITH-ANDERSON? I applaud Illinois Times for its investigative articles on Joe […]
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Letters 3-11-04
Letters policy We welcome letters, but please include your full name, address and a daytime telephone number. We edit all letters for libel, length and clarity. Send letters to: Letters, Illinois Times. P.O. Box 5256. Springfield, Illinois 62705. Fax: (217) 753-3958. E-mail: editor@illinoistimes.com THE SNOWBALL CANDIDATE This is a response to Charles Hershey [“Dennis the […]
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The Sucker State?
For years, Illinois has been known as the Prairie State or the Land of Lincoln. The former moniker reflects the state’s topography, dominated by flat, fertile land that was once covered by prairie grasses. References to Illinois as the Prairie State date back to the 1840s, so this is a well-established nickname. On the other […]
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Prison blues
During the 2002 campaign, gubernatorial candidate Rod Blagojevich spoke to a large crowd of union members in Vandalia, most of whom worked at the local state prison. Blagojevich made a pledge to them: If elected governor, “I will never balance the budget on your backs.” Fast-forward to February 2004. Gov. Rod Blagojevich proposes closing the […]
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Torpedoed
I’m going to talk about Blair Hull, but I have to tell you a story first. Nobody thought Terry Link had a chance back in 1996. Link was running for an Illinois Senate seat in a Republican-leaning Lake County district. He was a surefire loser. But Link worked hard, and his Republican opponent wasn’t much […]
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Letters 3-4-04
Letters policy We welcome letters, but please include your full name, address and a daytime telephone number. We edit all letters for libel, length and clarity. Send letters to: Letters, Illinois Times. P.O. Box 5256. Springfield, Illinois 62705. Fax: (217) 753-3958. E-mail: editor@illinoistimes.com CAUGHT BY THE GOB PILE I went to Hannibal, Mo., and picked […]
